My little boy’s school has a spring fair in a couple of months. I will be running an Asian food stall to raise money for the school. Last year we put on over a thousand pieces of finger food, along with noodles, fried rice & cold dishes (‘LiangBan’). The stall started at 10:30am and we sold out most food before 12pm. Many of my friends didn’t get to try our food.

So this year I am planning for more food.. an Asian style BBQ sounds like a good option. I have been experimenting different style of BBQ – Vietnamese grilled pork (nem nuong), northwestern Chinese lamb cumin, Korean chili chicken. Today I tried a grilled beef with soy, fish sauce, sesame oil, corn syrup and apricot jam. As you may have noticed from the pictures, I used coriander, which is uncommon for Korean food. But I love coriander so much and I can’t help it.

I served the beef on a crusty roll with lettuce and kim chi. I also served the beef on its own. Really yummy.

Recipe is as follows:

Ingredients

500g thinly sliced beef (trimmed chuck, or top side )

50g leek or onion, sliced

50g capsicum, sliced (optional)

1 tbsp Korean fish sauce

1 tbsp soy sauce

1 tsp dark soy sauce

1 tbsp corn syrup

1 tbsp sesame oil

2 tbsp apricot jam

black pepper, to taste

Method

Marinate the meat with all ingredients (except for the capsicum); refrigerate overnight.

Grill on a hot plate until cooked, add capsicum half way during cooking.